Smithsonian Names New Leader

By

Kelly Crow

Updated March 15, 2008 2:24 p.m. ET

G. Wayne Clough, the 66-year-old civil engineer and president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, was tapped today to become the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the biggest museum complex in the world.

He is set to begin the job in July. Dr. Clough, a native of Douglas, Ga., has spent the past 14 years overseeing a university that has more than doubled its research spending, boosted enrollment by over a third, and raised...